Random stuff for Friday afternoon: First, for those of you who are feeling particularly upper midwestern today, here’s a site full of Red Owl photos.…
Sad but not unexpected: A&P is trying to unload is one last connection with the southeast. They abandoned most of the region in the 1990s,…
This interesting snippet from a 1968 Colonial Stores grand opening ad from Atlanta comes to me from Robby Delius. It’s particularly noteworthy because it makes…
Evidently, the owners of this recently-converted Piggly Wiggly in Sanford NC are banking on the idea that, within a few years, no one will remember…
Just because the chain is now being discussed on my Message Board, and because I recently dug up these photos I shot during a 2001…